Digital economy in the UK: an evolutionary story


Emmanouil Tranos

University of Bristol, Alan Turing Institute
, @EmmanouilTranos, etranos.info

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Web data and spatial research
  • Empirical strategy
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Results
  • Conclusions

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Introduction

Aims

  • Map the active engagement with the digital

  • Over time, early stages of the internet

  • Granular spatial level

  • Importance: understand how the adoption of technologies evolves

  • Predictions of introduction times for future technologies (Meade and Islam 2021)

    • Network operators

    • Suppliers of network equipment

    • Regulatory authorities

Diffusion

Large scale adoption studies

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Spatiality of the internet using supply-side measures

  • Map internet infrastructure, both:

    • backbone (ADD REF), and

    • last mile (ADD REF, Singleton, Hannah)

  • Economic effects:

    • Kolko

    • Nathan

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Beardsell and Henderson (1999) used the employment in the computer industry to assess its evolution

Results

References

Beardsell, Mark, and Vernon Henderson. 1999. “Spatial Evolution of the Computer Industry in the USA.” European Economic Review 43 (2): 431–56.
Meade, Nigel, and Towhidul Islam. 2021. “Modelling and Forecasting National Introduction Times for Successive Generations of Mobile Telephony.” Telecommunications Policy 45 (3): 102088.